Coin-counter.



G. H. KINBERG.

COIN COUNTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 16, 1913.

Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS \rn PHOTO-LITHO" WASHINGTON D. C.

' G. H. KINBERG,

COIN COUNTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1a, 1913.

1,122,606. Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

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WE NORRIS PETERS C0. FHOTO-LITHIL. WASHINLZIUN, I;. l

G. H. KINBERG.

COIN COUNTER. APPLICATION FILED APRJB, 1913.

Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS c0 PHOTO-H1740WASHINGTON L;

GO'ITFRIID HILDING KINBERG, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

COIN-COUNTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

Application filed April 16, 1913. Serial No. 761,474.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GOTTFRID HrLDING KINBERG, a subject of the King of Sweden, and resident of Hamburg, Germany, have invented a new and useful Coin-Counter, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to counting apparatus for coins, counters and the like and more particularly to devices by the aid of which different amounts of coins are counted as well as the complete stock of coins can be ascertained, so that either the single amounts are counted and paid out from the apparatus in diiferent height or continuously.

This device distinguishes itself by simplicity and nevertheless also by perfect reliability. Besides it is provided with a peculiar device hereinafter more fully described. In this device the coins are taken singly from a rotatable counting disk or the like which at the rim is provided with notches or apertures, that successively pass a tube or funnel which is open at its lower end and contains the coins to be counted which by the said disk are moved one after the other to a discharge opening or outlet. Now in counting apparatus of this kind the outlet or discharge is not close to the coin feed, but is.

arranged in such manner thatbetween the feed and the discharge there are several apertures of the counting disk. By this means on the one hand a control over the last fed coin is possible, so that wrong coins or empty apertures will be noticed and an exchange or filling up may take place, before the counting mechanism combined with the apparatus is operated incorrectly. On the other hand it is possible to make use of a locking member pressing against the upper surfaces of one of the coins fed from the stock and lying in the apertures of the counting disk, which locking device therefore locks the disk at every incorrect counting with reliability. Then the counting commences the counting disk must have made a certain movement before the first coin is discharged by reason of the distance of the outlet opening from the supply. Since for counting a certain amount of coins a certain part of a rotation or acertain number of rotations of the disk must take place, the

desired amount will be curtailed for a number of coins corresponding with that part of the rotation necessary for initiating the counting, so that only such a number of coins would be discharged which is less than the desired number of such lying inthe apertures of the disk between the feed and the outlet. Such a mistake in the counting, which can only take place at the commencement of the operation will be avoided or rectified by the device forming the matter of the present invention.

In the drawings a counting apparatus provided with a device mentioned above is shown by way of example. The counting apparatus is only illustrated to such an extent as is necessary to understand the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan of the apparatus and Figs. 2 and 3 are sections showing the mechanisms in different position. Fig. 2 shows the detail in elevation.

The counting disk a is rotatably mounted on the fixed top plate I) of the apparatus and is rotated by a horizontal shaft 0 to allow the apertures to pass in succession below a coin feeding funnel (2 open at its lower end to allow each aperture to be filled by a coin. Below the disk opposite the feed or funnel (Z, there is a discharge pipe 6 in line of which there is an outlet in the plate 6.

Above the counting disk (1 next to the outlet tube 6 there is a locking bar 7 suitably guided in a bracket vertically so as to drop freely when not held in raised position. This locking bar bears on the coins lying in the apertures, but drops into the first empty aperture that presents itself and thus locks the counting disk against rotation, whereby the amount of coins discharged through the apertures is counted by the counting mechanism operated or influenced by the counting disk orthe shaft 0.

To the shaft 0, which on each revolution causes the rotation of the disk a, for one revolution, a collar is attached, carrying on one I side a nose 7 and on the other side a lateral stud h projecting parallel to the shaft 0 Figs. 2 and 3. Below this stud a toothed segment 70 is arranged pivotally on the fixed stud i, into the teeth of which segment the stud It will engage on each revolution of the shaft 0, whereby the toothed segment 70 will be rotated for one tooth. The segment is held against backward rotation by a pawl Z, and is returned to its initial position by a weighted lever is, when the pawl is released, for instance by a knob or key m.

The initial position of the toothed segment is is determined by a stop n Fig. 2,

in thebar g are at equal distances apart, the

against which an arm 0 of the segment 70 Wlll bear, and which is arranged on an arm p in a manner hereinafter more particularly described, the arm 79 being pivoted tothe stud i of the segment. To the arm ,1? an updistance or pitch being so chosen, that the adjustment of the stop n corresponds with the length of one tooth or the length of a i plurality of the teeth of the segment is.

The step by step oscillation of the segment In, for one tooth by the stud is limited by the aid of a stop 1, with which the nose 9 engages'when the stop 7* on the oscillation of the toothed segment projects into the path of the nose 9 as may be clearly understood from the dotted lines shown in Fig. 3. By determining the position of the bar 9* the toothed segment is can be so adjusted that the stop 7* will interrupt the operation when the shaft 0 and the counting disk a have rotated a predetermined number of revolutions. The collar carrying the nose 9 is so arranged on the shaft 0, that the nose engages the stop rat such moment, when with regard to the outlet tube (a the last of the revolutions of 'the counting disk to which the adjustment has been carried on, is finished.

If new the counting disk a is provided with ten apertures as shown and is rotated so far, that the first of the coins lying in the apertures reaches the outlet on each further rotation of the counting disk, ten coins will be paid out, that is to say on four rotations forty coins, on five rotations fifty coins, on six rotations sixty coins and so on will be paid out. It will therefore be clearly understood that by suitable adjustment of the toothed segment 74'- a certain amount of coins will be paid out in any desired repetition and each amount can be taken out between the locking and the release on the counting disk, while a new tube can be introduced at the outlet space to catch the next following amount of coins.

When it is desired to count a certain stock of coins, the bar 9 is secured in its highest position, as shown in Fig. 2. Thus also the stop n is placed in its highest position and the toothed segment k mayrotate to such extent, that, after the segment la has been .moved backward for one tooth by means herein after described, a tooth will be. situated underthe shaft 0, which on account of-its small height does not projectinto the path'of the stud h,TSO that theshaft can be rotated Without being acted upon by the segment. in the position shown in Fig. 2 this adjustment has not yet taken place.

Since between the coin feed and the coin discharge there are several apertures (four),

it will be understood that no coin will be the first half revolution of the counting disk the toothed segment will be moved on for. 7

one tooth. The movement for one tooth of the segment should however correspond to one complete revolution of the counting disk. Should by way of example for a certain amount of money five complete revolutions benecessary, and should the toothed segment be so adjusted that it will prevent rotation of the shaft 0 after five teeth have been moved on, then the counting disk would be only able to rotate for four revolutions, since the first half revolution of the counting disk (during which no coin is discharged) has already operated the segment for one tooth. Now in order to enable the wanting fifth revolution to take place the segment is is moved backward at the beginning of the operation a distance of one tooth. This backward adjustment will be compensated by the first half rotation, so that for the following five complete rotations five teeth can be moved on before the counting disk is arrested on account of the nose 9 hittingwagainst the stop 1'. Then these complete rotations of the counting disk take place the operation of the segment by the stud is carried out during the second half of each revolution and the positions of the noseg with respect to the stud h is such, that it strikes against the stop 1" when the second half of the last rotation is finished. i

It will be understood from the foregoing, that at the commencement of the counting an additional movement of the segment takes place over and above that, which corresponds to the necessary number of revolutionsof the disk, which additional movement will be carried on by hand and acts during the first half rotation of the counting disk. When a second or other following the toothed segment 72 is accomplished by a second stop 8 provided for on the oscillating arm 79 for determining the initial position of the'toothed segment. This second stop a is situated higher than the first stop n to such an extent, as will-correspond to the movementof the tooth explained above. To enable the toothed segment to bear against the stop 8, as is shown in Fig. 3, the stop n is adapted to be released or adjusted on the oscillating arm p. This is accomplished by reason of the stop a not being firmly attached to the arm 79, but is attached to a bell crank lever 15, which is rotatably fastened to the arm 79 and which is acted upon by a spring t tending to press the lever t against a stop (for instance the stop 8). The other arm of the bell crank lever 25 is pivotally connected with a rod M, which is slidably guided on the bar 9 and projects through the plate 6 carrying at its upper end a knob to, thus forming a key. By pressing this key down the stop n can be moved from the arm 0 allowing the latter to bear against the upper stop 8.

At the commencement of the counting the key m for releasing the locking pawl Z and the rod a are pressed downward simultaneously so that the toothed segment is set or moved on for one tooth. The first amount once being counted only the key on will be pressed down for every following counting so that the arm 0 now will always strike against the stop 1.

I claim:

1. In an apparatus for counting coins and the like, a counting mechanism comprising a disk having a number of apertures, a toothed member adapted to move for one tooth on every revolution of the counting disk, a stop to determine the initial position of the toothed member, a second stop to determine the end position of the toothed member when moved to a distance corresponding to the amount to be counted, and a movable carrier for the first named stop, which carrier is suitably guided and adapted to be fixed in different positions.

2. In an apparatus for counting coins and the like, a counting mechanism comprising a disk having a number of apertures, a toothed segment arranged to progress one Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the tooth for every revolution of the counting disk, a stop to determine the end position of the segment when moved to a distance corresponding with the amount to be counted, an arm pivoted to the axis of the oscillating segment and carrying the stop for determining the initial position of the segment, and a bar to operate said arm and arranged to be fixed in different positions.

8. In an apparatus for counting coins and the like, a counting mechanism comprising a disk having a number of apertures, a toothed segment arranged to oscillate one tooth on every revolution of the counting disk, a stop to determine the end position of the segment when moved to a distance corresponding with the amount to be counted, an arm pivoted to the axis of the oscillating segment, a second stop fixed to said arm and a third stop adjustably mounted on said arm, both of said stops determining the initial positions of the segment, the last named stop determining the initial position of the segment for its first movement.

4:. In an apparatus for counting coins and the like, a counting mechanism comprising a disk having a number of apertures, a toothed segment arranged to oscillate one tooth on every revolution of said disk, a stop to determine the end position of the segment when moved to a distance corresponding with the amount to be counted, an arm pivoted to the axis of the oscillating segment, a stop fixed to said arm and a third stop, a bell crank lever carrying the said third stop and pivotallv attached to said arm, said lever arranged to be manually operated to al-- low a backward movement of the segment preparatory to making its first movement corresponding to the initial filling of the apertures.

GOTTFRID IHLDlNG KINBERG.

Witnesses A. MARK, Kmvo THURNAUER.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

